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Section 913.01 | Commercial cannery definitions.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 571 - 118th General Assembly
As used in sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cannery" means a place or building where fruits, vegetables, or specialty products are packed in hermetically sealed containers and thermally sterilized and the products of which are placed on the market for general consumption as human food, regardless of where the product is sold in commerce. (B) "Low-acid foods" means any foods, other than alcoholic beverages, with an equilibrium pH greater than 4.6 and a water activity greater than 0.85, except that tomatoes and tomato products having a finished equilibrium pH less than 4.7 are not low-acid foods. (C) "Acidified foods" means either: (1) Foods that have a natural pH of 4.6 or below; (2) Low-acid foods to which acid or other acid foods are added and that have a finished equilibrium pH of 4.6 or below and a water activity greater than 0.85. "Acidified foods" does not include foods that are stored, distributed, or retailed under refrigeration. (D) "Specialty products" means food products other than fruits, vegetables, and meats that by their natural characteristics have a potential to produce botulism. "Specialty products" include, but are not limited to, puddings, gravies, sauces, and fish.
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Section 913.02 | License.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly
No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of operating a cannery without obtaining a license for the operation of each cannery from the director of agriculture. In order to obtain a license, an application shall be made on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by a fee of two hundred dollars. The director shall thereupon cause an investigation to be made. If the applicant is supplied with the facilities necessary for complying with sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under them, a license shall be issued and shall be effective until the thirtieth day of June, and shall become invalid on that date unless renewed. The fee for each renewal is two hundred dollars. License fees and renewal fees shall be deposited to the credit of the food safety fund created in section 915.24 of the Revised Code. The director may suspend or revoke any license for failure to comply with sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code, or any rule or order adopted under those sections. In such event, the cannery immediately shall cease operation.
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Section 913.021 | License renewal.
Effective:
November 21, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 742 - 108th General Assembly
All licenses issued under section 913.02 of the Revised Code shall be renewed annually by the last day of June pursuant to this section and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The renewal fee for each license shall be paid by the applicant for such renewal to the treasurer of state.
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Section 913.03 | Supervision of canneries.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 571 - 118th General Assembly
All vegetable, fruit, and specialty products canneries shall be under the supervision of and subject to the rules of the director of agriculture. At such times as the director considers proper, he shall cause to be inspected all canneries where fruits, vegetables, or specialty products are packed and preserved, and shall require the correction of any violation of sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code or any rules adopted under those sections, and may enter during normal business hours all places in or about the premises of any cannery for the purposes of such inspection and investigation.
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Section 913.04 | Administrative rules.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 507 - 134th General Assembly
(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code which: (1) Require all canneries to comply with regulations adopted by the United States food and drug administration in 21 C.F.R. 117, as applicable; (2) Require all canneries thermally processing low-acid foods packed in hermetically sealed containers to comply with regulations adopted by the United States food and drug administration in 21 C.F.R. 113.3 to 113.100, as amended; (3) Require all canneries thermally processing acidified foods packed in hermetically sealed containers to comply with regulations adopted by the United States food and drug administration in 21 C.F.R. 114.3 to 114.100, as amended; (4) Require all canneries, except those canneries required to register with the United States food and drug administration under 21 C.F.R. 108.35, to provide the director, prior to the processing of any food product, with scheduled processes for each processing method utilized, including all of the following: (a) The type of processing equipment used; (b) The type of retort or other thermal processing equipment used; (c) Minimum initial temperatures; (d) Time and temperature of processing; (e) Sterilizing value or other equivalent scientific evidence of process adequacy; (f) Critical control factors affecting heat penetration. (5) Establish standards of identity, quality, and fill for canned foods. (B) No person shall violate any rule adopted under this section.
Last updated March 21, 2023 at 10:20 AM
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Section 913.05 | Inspection.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 571 - 118th General Assembly
The director of agriculture shall appoint inspectors of canneries who have a thorough knowledge of the canning business. The inspectors shall: (A) Visit and inspect canneries as often as the director considers necessary; (B) See that canneries and the operation thereof comply with sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code, and with the rules adopted by the director; (C) Make reports of inspection to a person designated by the cannery and to the director.
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Section 913.22 | Soft drink definitions.
Effective:
August 30, 1955
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 457 - 101st General Assembly
As used in sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Soft drink" means any nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverage, soda, soda water, or fruitade, any nonalcoholic flavored still beverage, artificial waters whether carbonated or not, and bottled table waters, seltzer, or club soda. (B) "Soft drink flavors" means any type of soda water flavor, or beverage base, syrup, extract, concentrate, powder, or other compound prepared for use as a flavoring for soft drinks. (C) "Sweetening ingredient" means cane sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, corn syrup, in liquid or dried form, honey, or any syrup made from any such sugars or any combination of such sugars. (D) "Nonnutritive sweeteners" means saccharin, saccharin salt, sodium cyclamate, calcium cylamate and such other artificial sweetening agents as may be permitted in regulations adopted by the director of agriculture. (E) "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, or other legal entity. (F) "Bottling plant" means a building in which soft drinks are bottled, including any separate room used in the preparation or storage of soft drink flavors and including any separate room used for the accommodation of workers. (G) "Flavor manufacturing plant" means a building in which soft drink flavors are prepared, manufactured, and packaged, including any separate room used for the accommodation of workers. (H) "Bottling" means filling, capping, packaging, and enclosing in bottles or other containers.
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Section 913.23 | Licenses - registration - revocation.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly
(A) The director of agriculture may issue licenses as required by sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code, may make the inspections and registrations required by those sections, and may prescribe the form of application to be filed under this section. (B) No person shall manufacture or bottle for sale within this state any soft drink in closed containers unless the person has a license issued by the director. Upon receipt of an application for such a license, the director shall examine the products and the place of manufacture where the business is to be conducted, to determine whether the products and place comply with sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code. Upon finding there is compliance, and upon payment of a license fee of two hundred dollars, the director shall issue a license authorizing the applicant to manufacture or bottle for sale such soft drinks, subject to sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code. The license shall expire on the last day of March of each year unless renewed. (C) No soft drink that is manufactured or bottled out of the state shall be sold or offered for sale within this state unless the soft drink and the plant in which the soft drink is manufactured or bottled are found by the director to comply with sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code, and are registered by the director, which shall be upon a like application as provided in division (B) of this section. An annual registration fee of two hundred dollars shall be paid to the director by each applicant under this division. The registration shall be renewed annually, and the registration fee paid with the application for annual renewal. Registration of out-of-state soft drink manufacturers or bottlers or syrup and extract manufacturers is not required if a reciprocal agreement is in effect whereby a soft drink manufacturer or bottler or syrup and extract manufacturer located in this state is not subject to a license or registration fee by another state or a political subdivision thereof. (D) No person, other than a manufacturer or bottler holding a soft drink plant license under this section, shall sell, offer for sale, use, or have in the person's possession with intent to sell, any soda water syrup or extract or soft drink syrup, to be used in making, drawing, or dispensing soda water or other soft drinks, without first registering the person's name and address, the name and address of the manufacturer of the syrup or extract, the number and variety of such syrups or extracts intended to be sold, and the trade name or brand of those products, with the director, together with such samples of the syrups or extracts as the director requests for analysis. The person also shall pay to the department of agriculture at the time of making registration a license fee of one hundred dollars. No license shall be granted by the director unless the director determines that the syrup or extract is free from all harmful drugs and other ingredients that, as used, may be injurious to health. The registration shall be renewed annually upon like terms. If any manufacturer, bottler, agent, or seller is licensed or has registered the manufacturer's, bottler's, agent's, or seller's name and product as required by this section and has paid the manufacturer's, bottler's, agent's, or seller's fee, the manufacturer's, bottler's, agent's, or seller's distributor, retail agent, or retail seller using the products shall not be required to pay that fee. This section does not apply to local sellers of soft drinks as to syrups and extracts made by themselves for their own use exclusively. (E) All moneys received under sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code shall be deposited with the treasurer of state to the credit of the food safety fund created in section 915.24 of the Revised Code. (F) The director may revoke any license or registration issued under sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code, whenever the director determines that those sections have been violated. When a license has been revoked, the licensee shall discontinue the manufacture and sale of soft drinks or other products for which the license was issued. When a registration has been revoked, the registrant shall discontinue the sale within this state of the registrant's products until those sections have been complied with and a new license or registration has been issued. The director may suspend any such license or registration temporarily, pending compliance with such conditions required by those sections as the director prescribes.
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Section 913.231 | Annual license renewal.
Effective:
November 21, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 742 - 108th General Assembly
All licenses issued under section 913.23 of the Revised Code shall be renewed annually by the last day of March pursuant to this section and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
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Section 913.24 | Required ingredients.
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 497 - 108th General Assembly
(A) All nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverages or soda waters shall be prepared from a sweetening ingredient or nonnutritive sweetener, flavoring, potable carbonated water, with or without harmless color, and with or without acidulation by the use of harmless organic acids, or pure phosphoric acid; all nonalcoholic flavored still beverages and fruitades shall be prepared from a sweetening ingredient or nonnutritive sweetener, flavoring, potable water, with or without harmless color, and with or without acidulation by the use of harmless organic acids or pure phosphoric acid. (B) Sweetened flavored carbonated beverages, noncarbonated beverages, or fruitades shall contain not less than eight per cent of sugars by weight, on a dry basis, except dry beverages, which if labeled "dry," shall contain not less than seven per cent of sugars by weight on a dry basis, and except beverages made in accordance with division (F) of this section. (C) Whenever colors are contained in soft drinks or soft drink flavors, they shall be pure vegetable artificial colors or certified artificial colors approved under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or caramel. Products containing artificial color shall be labeled "artificially colored" or with an equivalent designation approved by the director of agriculture. (D) All water used in the manufacture or preparation of any soft drink shall be safe potable water free from pathogenic bacteria. (E) Soft drinks or soft drink flavors may be preserved with benzoate of soda or with such other preservatives and in amounts as are approved by the director. When such preservatives are used, the name of such preservative must be declared on the label of such soft drinks or soft drink flavors. (F) Any "diet beverage" or diet beverage base may be made with nonnutritive or combinations of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners and shall contain only ingredients approved by the director. The caloric value of such beverage shall be at least fifty per cent less than the caloric value of the comparable product made without nonnutritive sweeteners. The label of a beverage made with combinations of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners shall bear a statement of its caloric content per fluid ounce, its carbohydrate content per fluid ounce, the name and percentage of nonnutritive sweetener used, and a statement to the effect that it does contain sweeteners and is not for use by diabetics without the advice of a physician. The label of a beverage made with only nonnutritive sweeteners, with or without flavor ingredients which in their natural state contain residual sugars, shall state that the beverage contains nonnutritive sweeteners, the name and percentage of the nonnutritive sweetener used, and that the beverage is prepared for persons who wish to restrict their intake of ordinary sweets. (G) Water of any kind, prepared or compounded to simulate any natural spring water or natural mineral water, and bearing the name of such natural water, shall be clearly labeled so that it is not misleading, and such water shall not be described as a natural mineral or spring water. All mineral waters, whether of natural or artificial origin, sold or offered for sale must be of good quality when judged by the results of the sanitary chemical analysis, special significance being attributed to the presence of nitrate, to free ammonia in excess of five hundredths of a milligram per liter, and to an undue amount of organic matter; if not so found, they are adulterated.
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Section 913.25 | Label requirements.
Effective:
November 18, 1969
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 391 - 108th General Assembly
(A) Whenever synthetic flavors are used as a substitute for natural flavors in soft drinks or soft drink flavors prepared for sale, sold, or offered for sale, such products shall be labeled "artificially flavored" or with an equivalent designation approved by the director of agriculture. (B) Any word, statement, or other information required by sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to appear on the label shall be placed on such label with such conspicuousness, as compared with words, statements, designs, or devices in the labeling, and in such terms, so it may be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use. (C) Where soft drinks are sold in bottles or other closed containers, the labeling information required by sections 913.23 and 913.24 of the Revised Code, shall be placed on the container, label, or on the cap of the container, together with the name of the product, trade-mark, or other specific reference to the product to which it refers. (D) Soft drinks sold from bulk or from fountains shall conform generally to this section. If said soft drinks sold or offered for sale in bulk contain artificial coloring or artificial flavoring of any kind, there shall be prominently displayed in a conspicuous place on the counters or shelves, or on all stands, booths, or other places where such drinks are sold or dispensed, a conspicuous label or sign "artificially colored" or "artificially flavored," or both. (E) No soft drink shall be prepared for sale, sold, or offered for sale in bottles or other closed containers unless the name and principal location of the manufacturer or bottler thereof are shown on such container by being molded, printed, or otherwise labeled on such container or such name and location may be shown on the bottle cap in the case of permanently and distinctively branded bottles; but a licensee under sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has not violated this section if the container for the soft drink of such licensee shows on such container the product name, trade-mark, or brand used by such licensee by being permanently molded or otherwise impressed on such container, which product name, trade-mark, or brand, and a full description of the territory in which such products of the licensee are distributed, was filed with the director as a part of the application for license required by section 913.23 of the Revised Code. No person shall use, for the sale or distribution of soft drinks or other beverages, any bottles or other containers bearing the label, name, trade-mark, or brand of any other person without the consent of such other person, and any person who so uses bottles or other containers without such consent may be enjoined in a suit by the owner of the bottles or other containers bearing such label, name, trade-mark, or brand. (F) In addition to the specific labeling requirements set forth in sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all labels for soft drinks and soft drink flavors shall generally conform to the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relative to the labeling of food products.
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Section 913.26 | Adulteration prohibited.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person, within this state, shall manufacture for sale, sell, or offer for sale any soft drink or soft drink flavor which is adulterated. Any such soft drink or soft drink flavor is adulterated if it is compounded or manufactured contrary to sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or if it contains any added substance or ingredient which, as used, may be poisonous or injurious to health.
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Section 913.28 | Administrative rules.
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 507 - 134th General Assembly
The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 913.01 to 913.05 and 913.22 to 913.26 of the Revised Code, and the director shall adopt rules as the director considers necessary for the administration and enforcement of such sections.
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Section 913.41 | Food processing establishments to be kept sanitary.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No proprietor, owner, or manager of a bakery, confectionary, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant, eating house, packing house, slaughterhouse, ice cream factory, canning factory, or place where a food product is manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, produced, or sold for any purpose, shall fail to place it in a clean and sanitary condition within ten days after being duly notified in writing or by posting the notice provided for in section 913.42 of the Revised Code, or fail to keep it in such condition thereafter.
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Section 913.42 | Posting of notices.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If the director of agriculture or any of his inspectors or agents, is of the opinion that a place named in section 913.41 of the Revised Code is being operated in violation of such section he shall notify the proprietor, owner, or manager thereof, in writing, to place it in a clean and sanitary condition within a reasonable time to be stated in such notice, which time shall not be less than ten days. The director or any of his inspectors or agents shall post in a conspicuous place in such of the places mentioned in section 913.41 of the Revised Code a copy of the sanitary code adopted by the department of agriculture, printed in plain, legible type. Upon said notice shall be stamped or written the date of such posting and the inspector shall make a record of such date in a book provided for that purpose. A certified copy of the record of such posting shall be received as prima-facie evidence of such fact in the trial of any cause in any court of this state.
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Section 913.99 | Penalty.
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for a first offense; for a subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both; for a third offense such person's license shall be revoked. (C) Whoever violates section 913.41 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than one hundred days, or both.
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